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A man who means to think and write a great deal must, after six and twenty, learn to read with his fingers.
Margaret Fuller
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Margaret Fuller
Age: 40 †
Born: 1810
Born: May 23
Died: 1850
Died: July 19
Autobiographer
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Cambridge
Massachusetts
Sarah Margaret Fuller
Sarah Margaret Fuller Ossoli
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If any individual live too much in relations, so that he becomes a stranger to the resources of his own nature, he falls, after a while, into a distraction, or imbecility, from which he can only be cured by a time of isolation, which gives the renovating fountains time to rise up.
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I now know all the people worth knowing in America, and I find no intellect comparable to my own.
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There is some danger lest there be no real religion in the heart which craves too much daily sympathy.
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With the intellect I always have always shall overcome, but that is not the half of the work. The life, the life Oh my God! shall the life never be sweet!
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Drudgery is as necessary to call out the treasures of the mind, as harrowing and planting those of the earth.
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It is astonishing what force, purity, and wisdom it requires for a human being to keep clear of falsehoods.
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Some degree of expression is necessary for growth, but it should be little in proportion to the full life.
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